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Old Jul 12, 2009 | 9:09 am
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Shinigami
 
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Originally Posted by caspritz78
The original post is two years old. By now the RFID chips are safe by today's standards.
I would say that this is not the case yet.

You can steal the data on the RFID chips 20 feet away as proven by this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9isKnDiJNPk

And a corresponding article:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...07-11-15-38-40

The chips are a very poor implementation, really should have done it another way IMO.

*edit* seems that the very same things were posted in some earlier messages...
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